Do you have Windows laptop or desktop or any other Windows devices with you, with all your precious data on it? Or have you just spend thousands dollars and bought the new Surface or Surface Go? Well, be sure to enable Find My Device just in case you need to track when you lose the device.

Here’s how you can Enable Windows Find My Device.

Tested on Windows 10. Do note, Find My Device is not account specific, it affects everyone who uses this device including Administrator.

3) Under Update & Security, on the left menu, find and click Find My Device.

Windows Find My Device: Turn ON Find My Device and Location

4) Under Find My Device, turn ON Find My Device by clicking on Change button and set it to ON. Click Turn On Location to enable location tracking too (recommended otherwise you won’t get precise location). When Find My Device is turned on, by default Location Service is also turned on.

In case you can’t find Location (or Turn on location link) here, go to Settings, find and click Privacy, then on the left menu, find and click Location. You’ll find it there.

Well done. You just finished and successfully setting up Windows Find My Device.

4) Search by Computer Name and Model. Once found, click on Find My Device.

Windows Find My Device: You can see your Windows device location and proceed to Lock

5) Under Find My Device, you can see the location of your device. In my case, the location shown is accurate.

The next steps required only if you need to lock your device.

Attention! If you intention is to just test the locking mechanism, do save your work before continuing. Because the moment lock instruction is sent, it will lock the PC and log out any users logging in. Any unsaved works will be deleted/gone.

8) Under Create a lock screen message window, type your message to be sent to the device/PC. Do give meaningful message, such as give contact number and/or return address.

9) Once done with the message, click on Lock to start locking your device/PC.

Your windows device/PC will get locked once its connected to internet.

10) If you finally found your Windows device/PC, unlock the device using Administrator account.

Bring It All Together

Don’t let yourself be a victim of crime and at the same time lose everything (read: data). Set up this Windows Find My Device today, now, to save yourself in the future, in the event you lose your device and want to track it out and/or lock it out.

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